I can send out email but I can't recieve email. Slackware 9.1. So how do I go about setting up my email to work properly?

What email client are you using? You can send email because by default you use sendmail which is prolly running, however, you have to configure your client to fetch your mail.

Netizen

If you're using sendmail, and Slackware 9.1 does by default, make sure it is running:

If it's not, then go into /etc/rc.d/ and make sure it's executable so that it's started on bootup.
If it's not then set the exectuable flag by doing a "chmod 755 rc.sendmail". Then start it with "./rc.sendmail start". You may also want to foward to root's email to your login. You can do that by adding this to /etc/mail/aliases:
Of course you need to put your username there vs dahammer.. And then run "newaliases".

Also, you may need to adjust your email client settings to collect the mail, if your using kmail for instance. All the above assumes we're talking local email.

To get mail, I use fetchmail to get it from my pop servers. Then I run it through procmail to filter it. Then I read the mail with mutt. Each of these programs have extensive guides at their web sites.

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